Bella Dancer
LOST GIRLS: Rise Again. And Again. And Once More - My Lindsey Stirling Journey 4
Continued from MY JOURNEY WITH LINDSEY STIRLING: --THE MUSE IN THE MOON: A Thank You to My Muse & My Supporters --BRAVE ENOUGH: To Fight...
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Memoir Table of Contents
Welcome Aboard!
--"Izzy, how did you start dancing?"
--"What got you into martial arts?"
--"What kind of dancer/martial artist/writer are you?
--"How do you deal with brain damage, bodily injury and
C-PTSD, yet still dance, write, train, live the way you do?"
--"How do you still find joy and beauty amidst pain and loss?"
--"Wow, you should write your memoirs!"
This Is My Story
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Bella Dancer
- Oct 28, 2021
- 14 min
TRANSCENDING INTO LIGHT: And Taking Flight - My Lindsey Stirling Journey 3
Continued from MY JOURNEY WITH LINDSEY STIRLING: --THE MUSE IN THE MOON: A Thank You to My Muse & My Supporters --BRAVE ENOUGH: To Fight...
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Bella Dancer
- Oct 19, 2021
- 10 min
BRAVE ENOUGH: To Fight in the Arena & Shatter Shackles - My Lindsey Stirling Journey 2
Continued from: THE MUSE IN THE MOON - My Journey with Lindsey Stirling Synchronicity has been hard at work playing with me of late....
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Bella Dancer
- Aug 3, 2021
- 23 min
TBI SURVIVAL FOR MILD-TO-MODERATE LONG-HAULERS - Lessons From 20 Years of Tripe
As y’all know, I don’t often do the list thing, and I certainly don't do the short, snappy ten-point list. If this post is too long and...
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Bella Dancer
- Jul 26, 2021
- 5 min
STRUGGLE - Watching Nature Persevere
A few weeks after my big car wreck, my dad sent this to me. It became one of the main metaphors of my recovery from severe whiplash, TBI...
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Bella Dancer
- Jul 11, 2021
- 18 min
DRAMA-QUEEN - How I Bombed As a Theater Major, Yet Acquired a Key to Great Acting
“And what do you want to be when you grow up?” Adults love asking kids that question. I find myself parroting it to children I meet. Some...
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Bella Dancer
- Jun 24, 2021
- 14 min
GOTTA WHIP IT OUT - How I Practice Mindfulness With My Phone Camera
My mom and I joke all the time on our nature walks - "Oooh, gotta whip it out!" We're referring to our phone cameras, of course. What did...
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Bella Dancer
- Jun 13, 2021
- 8 min
AFFIRMATIONS - From Acceptance to the Zero Point Potential of Creation
Image by Dennis Nejtek I really wanted to dance tonight, but my body is not ready. It's too busy healing a new tooth implant and...
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Bella Dancer
- Jan 7, 2021
- 7 min
"DO YOU SEE ROADBLOCKS OR OPPORTUNITIES?" the abled male said to the disabled female.
I love when the abled attempt to use their simple metaphors on the disabled, and then run in a cricket-chirping fashion when we respond....
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Bella Dancer
- Jan 2, 2021
- 16 min
SIT-REP: Holiday Hell 2000 -The Car Wreck Journals
If you're just joining us, the following SitRep journal entries and letters to my loved ones come from this car crash. If you prefer this...
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Bella Dancer
- Jan 2, 2021
- 14 min
MY RAWR-ING 2020 IN REVIEW: And a Shameless Request for Patronage
RAWRing '20s Grrrl New Years Eve 2020 EDIT: Dain Bramage & Covid strike again! Huh...so apparently it was actually the first day of the...
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Bella Dancer
- Dec 25, 2020
- 13 min
2020 WTF: Part 2 - My Holiday WTF Season 20 Years Ago
Continued from: --MY 20TH ANNIVERSARY HOLIDAY TRIGGER DAY: WT-Actual-F, 2020?! --Want to start at the beginning of this anniversary...
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Bella Dancer
- Dec 25, 2020
- 8 min
MY ANNIVERSARY HOLIDAY TRIGGER DAY: WT-Actual-F, 2020?!
🔥Written yesterday...left to ferment overnight...still highly combustible.🔥 Before we get to the mushy stuff: 🎄This one is for The...
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Bella Dancer
- Dec 21, 2020
- 10 min
I DARE YOU - My 20th RebirthDay
Twenty years ago this morning, I thought I'd be waking up like usual. I thought I'd scribble my thoughts into my journal for fifteen...
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Bella Dancer
- Dec 18, 2020
- 7 min
SURFACING - The Hidden Injury in a Career That's All About *Show*
By 2005, I had decisively proven the pessimistic half of my medical team wrong when they told me I would never be a professional dancer...
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Bella Dancer
- Dec 12, 2020
- 10 min
THE COMA & THE SWIRLING SEA - When Memories Are Inaccessible
Let's explore another TBI metaphor: I stand. I sit. I speak. I dance. I drive. I train. I travel. (Okay, I used to travel.) I write. I...
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Bella Dancer
- Dec 11, 2020
- 6 min
OCEAN GIPSY - The Underwater Realm of Traumatic Brain Injury
I'm always searching for ways to describe what living with my brain injury FEELS like. Because if you don't know, you can't know. And if...
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Bella Dancer
- Dec 1, 2020
- 8 min
I AM FORGETFUL LUCY-LIGHT: The Fuzzy Impressionist Paintings That Are My Memory
Lucy Whitmore - Forgetful Lucy from 50 First Dates: Although one of my most significant injuries is to my left temporal lobe, I don’t...
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Bella Dancer
- Nov 10, 2020
- 6 min
THERE’S STILL-LIFE IN THE OLE GIRL YET - The Day I Stalked Death: with my camera
In case you've never seen this dance with shadow & the Elements: I’ve had a rotten last 18 hours. So how did I console myself? I went...
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Bella Dancer
- Oct 31, 2020
- 16 min
A LOVE LETTER TO A FEW OF MY BULLIES - As We Approach 50
Do you have any idea how often I think about you all? The ruts in my neural pathways keep your voices on auto-repeat just over my...
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